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Central Station (Central do Brasil) Reviews

Warm and deeply moving, this is not your typical road movie but a wonderful drama that will make you laugh, cry and in the end feel like you got to know these characters and shared this unique experience with them - a merit also of its two magnificent central performances.

A moving and heart-warming movie. The story tells of the inexplicable interplay between unique personal relationships and conscience. I like the scene where Dora and Josue come to an understanding, the scene where Josue finds a way to become a successful entrepreneur, and the last scene of the movie when a morally ambiguous Dora does a good deed. What redemption! What happiness!

A four-hanky weepy about a dishonest letter writer who is forced under circumstances and her conscience to return a homeless boy to his father. The journey they shared will give them faith and hope again in their similar fatherless and poverty-striken plight.

The film is excellent in the genre Charlie Chaplin. I found it overly dramatic at the beginning with the music. It, however, get into its pace and we are intrigued at the adventures that will happen and the discoveries to come. It does not disappoint. The tone is right then. Excellent.

A very beautiful film from Brazil with a great performance from Fernanda Montenegro that was worthy of her Oscar nomination. It is a wonderful road trip movie that is well written and has a great score. The boy was great as well. It may be my attention issues during Foreign films that I don't see in a movie theater but at times it did lose me but overall it is really worth watching

Nice story about an evil woman who is guilt tripped into helping a orphaned kid into finding his missing father. This film has lots of levels to explore and gives an insight to a huge country that we don't see a lot of in the movies.

They live on a broad land of Brazil. People who do not have a telephone and who do not read and write letters talk and ask a letter-writer to write a letter to their family. The Brazilian road movie portrays thoughts of such people for their families. Brazil is a big country.

if you are not touched by this movie then your heartless and you will need a different approach to life. Its a story that happens to many people in many different ways. About someone that we love, that we miss and that we will always love and will always miss. People come into our life for a meaning, they do what they have to do and then they are gone... and doesnt matter where life take us they will always have a place in our hearts.. and we will always remember them, for all what they did and all what they represent. I thank you.. for showing me life can still be beautiful in so many different ways.

A sweet and tender story about an older woman and a small boy. She is an incredible actor and the film doesn't shy away from her flaws as well as the country of Brazil. It has a a powerful social commentary and a beautifully moving conclusion. That said, it follows a standard "road movie" structure that didn't surprise me all that much. Still, an admirable effort if not exactly mind-blowing.